# beatificar
## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin beātificāre (“to bless”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [be.ə.ti.fiˈka]
* IPA: (Valencia) [be.a.ti.fiˈkaɾ]

### Verb

beatificar (first-person singular present beatifico, first-person singular preterite beatifiquí, past participle beatificat)
* to beatify

#### Related terms

* beatífic
* beatificació
* beatíficament

### Further reading

* “beatificar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “beatificar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “beatificar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “beatificar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Galician
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin beātificāre (“to bless”). By surface analysis, beato +‎ -ificar.

### Verb

beatificar (first-person singular present beatifico, first-person singular preterite beatifiquei, past participle beatificado)
* (transitive, Roman Catholicism) to beatify (take step in declaring a person a saint)

#### Related terms

* beatificación

### Further reading

* “beatificar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin beātificāre (“to bless”). By surface analysis, beato +‎ -ificar.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /be.a.t͡ʃi.fiˈka(ʁ)/ [be.a.t͡ʃi.fiˈka(h)]
* (Brazil) IPA: /be.a.t͡ʃi.fiˈka(ʁ)/ [be.a.t͡ʃi.fiˈka(h)]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /be.a.t͡ʃi.fiˈka(ɾ)/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /be.a.t͡ʃi.fiˈka(ʁ)/ [be.a.t͡ʃi.fiˈka(χ)]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /be.a.t͡ʃi.fiˈka(ɻ)/
* (Portugal) IPA: /bjɐ.ti.fiˈkaɾ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /bjɐ.ti.fiˈkaɾ/
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /bjɐ.ti.fiˈka.ɾi/
* Hyphenation: be‧a‧ti‧fi‧car

### Verb

beatificar (first-person singular present beatifico, first-person singular preterite beatifiquei, past participle beatificado)
* (transitive, Roman Catholicism) to beatify (take step in declaring a person a saint)

#### Conjugation

$^1$Brazilian Portuguese. $^2$European Portuguese.

#### Related terms

* beatificação

### Further reading

* “beatificar” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913

## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin beātificāre (“to bless”). By surface analysis, beato +‎ -ificar.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /beatifiˈkaɾ/ [be.a.t̪i.fiˈkaɾ]
* Rhymes: -aɾ
* Syllabification: be‧a‧ti‧fi‧car

### Verb

beatificar (first-person singular present beatifico, first-person singular preterite beatifiqué, past participle beatificado)
* (transitive) to beatify

#### Conjugation

$^1$Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language. $^2$Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.

#### Related terms

* beatificación

### Further reading

* “beatificar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10